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What’s a better purpose for a laptop with a broken screen than to be turned into a (screenless) server?

In a conversation I had last week, the topic of using AI for debugging code came up.

During the heatwaves in Europe, at some point I was (unnecessarily) interested in the temperature and humidity in my house.

This morning, I released Laser version 0.5.0, a CD ripping application for Linux built with the Libadwaita toolkit.

Progress, these days, seems to be equivalent to ever-more polished interfaces; more whitespace around buttons, glow, glassy, or frosty effects; smooth animations even on websites.

I was recently introduced to the concept of a mid-year reset, which I’ve interpreted as a way of reflecting on the goals I set at the start of the year as well as doing a physical and digital declutter.

The book we read for the book club I’m in for July was Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel.

Unfortunately, after a move, it seemed my work PC, running on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, had borked itself.

Last month, I had a wonderful time visiting Evelyn in the UK.

Recently, I finally got to read the science-fiction classic (Published: Jun 23, 2026)

As I have deleted my StoryGraph, I thought I’d try my hand at writing a small review here.

As readers of this blog might be aware, my main computer had been running Fedora Linux for a while.

Last weekend, Fabian invited me to go to the ELE (originally Eindhoven-Liège-Eindhoven) Rally.

After some less-than-ideal experiences with my previous web host, I have decided to migrate to Hetzner for my web host.

Recently, I’ve become more aware of my reliance on likely invasive financial and banking services.

Although we’ve learnt not to use passwords such as user, admin, or password, the vast majority of passwords used are still too weak.

Over the past couple months, I’ve been working on my first app for the GNOME desktop.

Over the past two decades or so, the Internet has become dominated by a small amount of large companies.

In choosing my hardware and software, I try to pick more ethical alternatives than what is perhaps popular.

Although my main devices have been on Linux for many years now, I still had my old “gaming” PC that was running Windows (for the sake of games).

For the new year, I wanted to set a number of intentions.

One activity that always gives me a bit of peace of mind is doing a digital declutter.

Recently, I was re-evaluating the services I use.

Although I’m advertising myself a proponent of open source on this blog, I realised I hadn’t actually made the code of this blog publicly available.

Recently, I wanted to replace my phone’s battery, as its performance had degraded but I was and am still very happy with the overall functioning of the device.

Cloud storage is used by most people nowadays, offering the convenience of having access to your files at any point.